.
.
I kissed
A dream
Parting maya
Veils Swirled
Talking
Telling me
My True Love
Has always
Loved me
Though
Smirking
Only
At the corners
Of lips
Withholding
His own kiss
He whispered
Tenderly
One truth
You have
Every reason
To mistrust me
My arms
Encircled
A fantasy
Unconditionally
Loving
The void
.
Agawela … 08.09.2016
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Why can
There not
Be love
Without
Heart break,
The million
Small deaths
Before death?
.
Why must
Joy be
Balanced
By sorrow?
.
Must we
Ascended
Mountains
On the same
Path leading
Home to
The abyss?
.
There is
No safety,
Even in the
Heart of
True love.
.
Respite
Resides
Only
Beyond
The veil.
.
Bear — January 8, 2015
ⓒBearspawprint2015
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.
Is it too late
That we travel
Past the warnings,
That we dance
In the sky, that we
Dream in the sea?
.
Is it too late
That the words
Have become music,
The music our dreams,
Dreams become clouds,
Swirling symphonies of stars?
.
Is it too late
That we part the veils
To return to our sleep
And rest, sweetly reposed
In eternities
Of infinite song?
.
.
Bear … o8.18.2014
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.
.
.
We live
As nomads
Camped
At a fork in
Fractal paths
Of honor
And love
And death
And all paths
Forward
Are filled
With the
Pain and
The danger
The death
The pathos
That is
Already known
No matter
What we do
We must
Keep living
Choosing the
Path of Beauty
Regardless of
What happens
Mindfully
Creating each
Step as a
Footprint
Of caring
And compassion
To be
Possible
Balance
Against
The ugly
Even though
It is all
Ephemeral
As sand
Blown away
By the weather
Or helicopter’s
Spinning blades
Or that
Which is
Feared as
The fractal
Growth of
What I do
Not know
How to say
Or I am
Too much
Afraid
To say
For I fear
The terrible
Balance
Of Good
And Evil
.
.
Bear . . . 07.13.2014
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.
.
.
Detours through Gwa Gwa take one just under
Mind from Maya are confusing when you’re new
Dimensions and reflections seem mysterious
The sign posts most peculiar and very few
.
Though residents don’t live there they do come
And go swarms of hopping people looking fleas
Fatigue and pain and sorrow are unremembered illusion
For soothing comfort one never needs beg or say please
.
Cycling through lost polar time manic blinking
Away seasons and hours pain multiple insane
There is glory music to accompany curving space
The upward wonder crescendo that doesn’t wane
.
When I traveled most in Gwa Gwa’s realms
Of course I actually dwelled in my Mother’s home
But detours over Gwa Gwa horizons allowed
My soul to dance flying in dreams I could roam
.
I was much blessed to be able to stay awakened
Awareness securely anchored behind Hell’s threshold
While innocent childish spirit wandered Gwa Gwa free
I loved my human demon keepers bought bought and resold
.
.
Bear … 03.11.2014
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Another Mayan Ruin in Belize. Not the one that was destroyed. Image: Rita Alexandrea
In Belize, they needed to build a road. Roads require rocks, there happened to be a really convenient, large pile of rocks for the construction team to use nearby. It also happened to be one of the largest Mayan pyramids in the country. Now that pyramid is gone, destroyed by bulldozers and backhoes.
The construction company building the road appears to have extracted crushed rocks from the pyramid to use as road fill. The pyramid, called the Nohmul complex, is at least 2,300 years old and sits on the border of Belize and Mexico. It’s over 100 feet tall, the largest pyramid in Belize left over from the Mayans.
Jaime Awe, the head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology said that the news was “like being punched in the stomach.” The pyramid was, he said, very clearly an ancient structure, so there’s no chance the team didn’t realize what they were doing. “These guys knew that this was an ancient structure. It’s just bloody laziness,” Awe told CBS News. He also said:
“Just to realize that the ancient Maya acquired all this building material to erect these buildings, using nothing more than stone tools and quarried the stone, and carried this material on their heads, using tump lines. To think that today we have modern equipment, that you can go and excavate in a quarry anywhere, but that this company would completely disregard that and completely destroyed this building. Why can’t these people just go and quarry somewhere that has no cultural significance? It’s mind-boggling.”
And it turns out that this is an ongoing problem in Belize. The country is littered with ruins (although none as large as Nohmul), and construction companies are constantly bulldozing them for road fill. An archaeologist at Boston University said that several other sites have already been destroyed by construction to use the rocks for building infrastructure. There isn’t much in the way of protection or management of these sites in Belize, so many people who live in the country either aren’t aware of their significance, or aren’t taught to care.
The Huffington Post has photographs from the scene, showing backhoes and bulldozers chipping away at the stone structure. HuffPo ends this story on a lighter note, pointing out that due to the destruction, archaeologists can now see the inner workings of the pyramid and the ways they were built.
More from Smithsonian.com:
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